Tools: HCA 13/124
HCA 13/124
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Tertio decembris 1650
Repetit coram docto[XX]
Clerk [?Jud] uno etcetera
The personal Answers of Captaine
William Jackett made to the [?perused]
positions of a perused Libell given
and admitted against himm on the
behalfe of humfry hickman
as followeth videlicet
To the first hee answereth that hee
beleeveth the same to bee true/
To the second hee answereth that hee
referreth himselfe to his former Answer[?s]
to the Allegation given in this Court
on the behalfe of the said hickman
which hee beleeveth to bee true And
otherwise hee doeth not beleeve the said
position to bee true in any parte thereof
To the 3: 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: and 13th
hee answereth and beleeveth That
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dureing all the voyadge libellate the
arlate humfry hickman did carry and
demeane himselfe very uncivilly [?XXXX]=
[?XXXly] and debauchedly very much
addicting himselfe to sweareing curseing
and blasphemeing and alsoe to fighteing
and quarrelling and rayseing many
differences and debates and much conyten=
tion in the severall Shippes wherein this
Rendent went out and did dureing the sayd
voyadge most deperately strike one of
the negroes in the shipp the Mayflower
soe that hee presently fell downe and dyed
with the blowe given him by the said hick=
man and did very dangerously wound
another of the negroes soe that hee very
hardly escaped and did after most
deperately strike att and much endanger
severall of the Company of the said shipps
and amongest others did desperately stabb
att Robert Slowe the Calker of
the shippe Mayflower with a penknife
whereby his life was much endangered
and if hee had not prevented the same with
his Arme and receaved the stabb therein
hee had in all probability wounded him to
the death and Complaint thereof being
made to this Rendent hee did command
his knives to bee taken from him and his
person to bee secured in the Bilboes intill
the morneing that the buisinies could bee
thoroughly examined and then in the
morneing this Rendent caused all the
Officers of the Shippe and rest of the
Companye to bee called together and
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hee suffered haardshipp or imprisonment
as is arlate
To the 20: 21: and 22th hee answereth
that hee knoweth nothing thereof nor
doeth conceive hee is bound to answer
any thing thereunto/
To the 23th hee answereth that hee doeth
not beleeve the same to bee true
To the 24: 25: and 26th hee answereth
That hee referreth himselfe to the
Records of this Courte And otherwise
saveing his former Answers which
hee beleeveth to bee true hee doeth not
beleeve the said perused positions to bee
true in any parte
Will Jackett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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Repetit coram
docto{XX] Clerk [?JudXX] uno et cetera
dicto die
Rensa personalia William Jackett [?for]
al[?ui] apud Acta et exhibito in eadem
[?mXXtion] at als con eum ex parte [?hXX]
fridi hickman 4o. Novembris: 1650
dat et exhibit sequuntur/
To the said Allegation and exhibit therein men=
tioned hee answereth and beleeveth that
the booke in the said Act mentioned was and
is the booke of this Rendent and the
name of the said hickman and the summe
of 24 s written thereunto was written
with the proper hand writeinge of him
this rendent as hee beleeveth but this
REndent doeth not beleeve that hee did hire
or agree with him the said hickman for
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the said summe of 24 s or ever undertake
or promise to pay him the said summe but
beleeveth taht hee was hired by Captaine
Andrewes one of the setters forth of the
Shipp arlate whoe telling this Rendent
that hee should have or that hee promised
24 s per moneth hee did accordingly write
his name and the said summe downe in
his booke And hee beleeveth the identity
of the persons alleadged./
Will Jackett [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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